| 词源 |
chippy. Most sources say chippy, first recorded in the late 1880s, comes from chip, “to chirp,” as a streetwalker might do when a prospective client walked by. But it’s hard to believe that prostitutes commonly chirped at men. More likely, this name for a whore derives from the chips prostitutes were paid with by clients in Mexican-American whorehouses (chippy houses) in the western United States. The customers purchased chips from the madam, paid the women with them and the women cashed them in for their percentage. |